Originally Posted by SPN Lifer

It has now been almost five years since Marriott offered life-time Titanium (LTT) status.

Were Marriott to reinstate it, they could trot it out as "new" or "new and improved", with whatever criteria they wished. The whole purpose, from Marriott's perspective, is to drive new business during the qualification period, and retain at least some residual business during the lifetime benefit period.

No one would flinch at a 1,000 night requirement, as shown by Hilton and Hyatt.

As for the Marriott information technology (IT) data deficiencies, those can easily be remedied by starting the new LTT program at whenever their list of accurate 75-night years begins. (It is a "new" program, after all.)

For example: 1,000 nights and 10 years Titanium since 2015.

Originally Posted by ftrichard

Given that the discussion on the restoration of LTT erupts in regular cycles and I've never commented on it before, I'll make a few observations which I think are logical and do not specifically benefit me so there's no personal bias. FIrst, Marriott isn't counting Titanium years. It would either have to reconstruct this data from its database of merged Marriott Rewards and SPG information or use some proxy data that is available and updated today like LTP years. In my estimation, reconstructing a LTT count and making it publicly available would be wildly inaccurate given what we know about the messiness of the legacy data and result in an unprecedented number of customer complaints. Bonvoy's customer service agents would be entering the Kingdom of Hades if Marriott attempted this. They won't. So we get to a proxy measure that does exist. The only one would be the LTP count. Strictly this represents years that clocked up 50 nights. There are two measures for Lifetime status: years and nights so looking at the years first, we know we need 10 years of Platinum at 50 nights to get LTP so the measure would need to account for another 25x10 or 250 nights which represents another 5 years of Platinum status so 15 years on the LTP count to be a proxy for the absent LTT count. Then, the nights. This data does exist and the previous threshold for LTP is 600 nights (or 100 more than the strict 10x50 nights the years count would suggest). You can pick any figure you like for this but I reckon the most obvious one would be 1000 nights as it's a nice round number and feels something to strive for over the 15 years of Platinum count (which would generate 15x50 = 750 nights) that we are striving for.

So we are left with 15 years on the LTP count + 1000 nights to give LTT. There, I've said it.